Book Excerpt: Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America

This story is a part of our Mad Men Takeover. Season four of the series premieres on AMC this Sunday, July 25. — Below, an excerpt from Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s new Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America. Here, the author sets up the excerpt… Beyond Mad Men’s top-notch writing, complex characters, hypnotic design (really, the fusion of all these elements is the highest caliber of art, and it’s so titillating to witness a renaissance in such an unlikely medium, isn’t it?), there’s an all-engrossing mood that permeates the show. That mixture of anxiety, instability, and tectonic cultural shifts that...  read more